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What I Was Really Avoiding: Jay Barbanel on Adoption, Therapy & Healing
Jay Barbanel, author of Finding Tico, unpacks what he spent two decades avoiding, and what it took to finally choose healing over silence.
Connecting the Dots: Finding My Way Back to Peru Through Music
John Cesar, classical guitarist and educator, reflects on the concert that connected him to Peru, and what it took to finally return to the place where his story began.
What I Was Really Avoiding: Jay Barbanel on Adoption, Therapy & Healing
Jay Barbanel, author of Finding Tico, unpacks what he spent two decades avoiding, and what it took to finally choose healing over silence.
Adopting the Page: Writing Myself Back to Life
A terminal diagnosis led one Korean adoptee to plant medicine, writing, and an unexpected confrontation with grief, aloneness, and adoption.



